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Nubbins was created in the late 1950’s by George Crenshaw (penned at one point with the pseudonym George Crandall),
with Jim Burnett as the writer. Around 1970-1971, Henry Boltinoff took over artistic duties of the strip until the end of its long but relatively obscure run in 1986.
Nubbins (1971-1982 various)
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Laff-a-Day is a daily gag cartoon panel distributed to newspapers by King Features Syndicate from 1936 to 1998.
The cartoonists included Frank Beaven, Henry Boltinoff, Dave Breger, Bo Brown, Orlando Busino, George Gately,
Martin Giuffre, Al Kaufman, Reamer Keller, Harry Mace, Jack Markow, Don Orehek, Charles Skiles, Eli Stein, Jack Tippit and Bill Yates.
The editor of the series was cartoonist Bob Schroeter.
Laff-A-Day (June – August 1948)
Laff-A-Day (1949)
Laff-A-Day (January-March 1950)
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Fourth Estate is a traditional term for the press; it may also refer to “the mob” (as in mob rule) or the proletariat.
Fourth Estate (1949-1959 various)
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Sunday Press Books is a specialty publishing house best known for its restoration of classic American comic strips,
reprinted as gorgeous hardcover editions in the original size and colors. The brainchild of Peter Maresca,
Sunday Press has rekindled our collective fascination with such beloved features as Little Nemo in Slumberland,
Krazy Kat, Thimble Theatre, and more. These collections have received dozens of salutations and awards,
including a stream of seventeen Will Eisner Comic Industry Award nominations for thirteen years running.
Fantagraphics Sunday Press Book – Society Is Nix
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“The AAFF (American Air Force Features) was a regular comic nespaper that was produced by the Bradbury company to be distributed at US Air Force Bases. It ran from 1955 to 1965 (at least) and had a mix of funny and realistic stories. Some of the artists included in this package were big names from comics and cartoons.”
American Air Force Features (1955-1965 various)
The Secret Heart (also known as My Story and Story-A-Week) was a short-lived comic strip distributed by the Chicago Tribune /N.Y. News Syndicate. The writer was Jim Lawrence, who worked on three better known comic strips; James Bond, Buck Rogers and Friday Foster. The artist was “Jorge Franch”, who seems to be the noted Spanish comics artist Jordi Franch Cubells.
The Secret Heart stories revolved around a different romantic couple each week . The strip ran week-long “continuities” which ran in black and white on weekdays and concluded in the Sunday colour strip. I think these were the reasons why it didn’t take off – there were no regular characters the readers could follow (unlike, say, The Heart of Juliet Jones), and newspapers tended to prefer comic strips with separate plots for the daily and Sunday strips.
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Secret Heart (1973) (Complete)
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The Red Mask was a heroic figure inspired by The Phantom, which had debuted in newspapers less than six months earlier.
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Adventures of the Red Mask (1936)
William Barclay “Bat” Masterson (1853-1921) was a notable western figure who was, over the years, gambler, lawman, Army scout, buffalo hunter, and newspaper columnist. A fictionalized account of his life was serialized in the 1958-1961 television series starring Gene Barry. In this black-and-white series, Barry portrayed Masterson as an elegant lady’s man seeking adventure in the Wild West, but unlike most gunslingers, Barry’s character preferred to use his cane to a gun.
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Bat Masterson (1959)
Bat Masterson (1960)
The Bungle Family is an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by Harry J. Tuthill, that first appeared in 1918. Originally titled Home, Sweet Home, it first appeared as part of a series of rotating strips in the New York Evening Mail. The strip ran until June 2, 1945.
In 1999, The Bungle Family was voted one of the Top 100 English language comics of the 20th Century by The Comics Journal. Art Spiegelman praised The Bungle Family as “Visually deadpan, genuinely hilarious once you tune into its frequency, with a great ear for dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of character”. Spiegelman also described the strip as “one of the darkest visions of American life this side of Nathanael West.”
Seen only sporadically in 1918, the strip was published daily and was nationally syndicated with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate by the end of 1919. Home, Sweet Home followed the adventures of Mabel (later Josephine) and George, a young couple beset on all sides by in-laws, neighbors and businessmen.
Tuthill took the strip to the McNaught Syndicate when the Evening Mail was sold in 1924, changing the name to The Bungle Family and adding daughter Peggy Bungle to the cast. A Sunday page was in existence by September 9, 1923.
Tuthill continued to draw The Bungle Family for McNaught until he had a dispute with the syndicate in 1939. This led to Tuthill ending the strip on August 1, 1942. After a hiatus, the strip returned — syndicated by Tuthill himself — on May 16, 1943, with newspapers running a promotional banner, “The Bungles Are Back!” It ran for two more years until June 2, 1945, when Tuthill retired.
The Bungle Family Sunday page had three different toppers during the run: Little Brother (Oct 24, 1926 – March 28, 1937), Another Day Shot (1936) and Short Stories (April 4, 1937 – 1938).
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Bungle Family (1928 Sundays)
Bungle Family (1937 Sundays)
Cop Shop takes us inside a suburban police station. It follows real people and real characters whose lives are entangled through their work. It is a story that uncovers the warmth and humour of its characters and the hopes and fears of their everyday lives. Cop Shop is also full of high action, adventure and gripping police drama.
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Cop Shop (1980-1983)
Newspaper Comic Strips 